Year 5 Pandas

We have started term 5, learning about the Titanic. On Friday 5th May 2017, the children took part in a wonderful enrichment day. We welcomed John White, who is internationally recognised in owning one of the world’s largest collections of White Star Line artefacts, into school.

He founded White Star Memories as a place for his growing collection and now tours the world with his exhibition, ‘Titanic in photographs’. Last year, John and his team visited Middleton Hall, in Milton Keynes with the exhibition and it was a huge success with our previous Year 5 group and this year we were very lucky to have John at Willen.

On the day, the children had the opportunity to view some of the wonderful displays and artefacts and took part in a question and answer session. There was a quiz on the day, with Titanic related prizes too! They also have the opportunity to dress up, using props such as life jackets and period props from the ship and its sister ships.

Have a look at our photo gallery to see what the children did on the day.

English

I am so proud of the writing skills in my English group. We are continuously challenging ourselves and including the new skills we have learnt in Grammar in our own work. Presently, we are writing formal and informal letters as passengers on board the Titanic. We have used ‘Talk for Writing’ to learn a letter off by heart, completed several group activities to learn about the lives of First and Third class passengers and taken part in a hot-seating activity to learn more about the thoughts and feelings of the passengers.

Watch this space for some of our exciting letters!

Our School trip

We’re off to the Space Centre on Tuesday 31st January ! Click on the link below to read about the National Space Centre.